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Grove Hospital

File labelled 'Fever and Tropical Fevers' containing the following:

  • correspondence between Grove Hospital sister tutor Margaret Thomas and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (enclosing syllabus of lectures), Jun 1957
  • correspondence from the General Nursing Council, 1952-1957
  • transcripts and correspondence from former trainees, 1949-1953
  • receipts for books and stationery, 1940s-1950s
  • envelope labelled 'Fever Papers' containing GNC exam papers for fever nurses, 1955-1959
  • quarterly ward report forms and blank record of training form, 1940-1952
  • test paper from trainee nurse Grace Bradford, c.1940s

St James' and related hospitals

Set of alphabetical files containing correspondence relating to requests for references/transcripts – often for the purpose of registration in North America – from nurses who trained at St James' Hospital or others that were incorporated into the South West London Hospitals Group School of Nursing (subsequently the St George's District School of Nursing), including the South London, Bolingbroke, and St Benedict's. Copies of transcripts and original training records are sometimes enclosed.

Royal Richmond and related hospitals

Correspondence, separated with alphabetical dividers, relating to requests for references/transcripts from nurses who trained at the Royal Hospital, Richmond or occasionally other hospitals in the Kingston Group (Surbiton and Kingston). Copies of transcripts and original training records are sometimes enclosed.

Royal Masonic Hospital

Correspondence between teaching staff in the schools of nursing at the Royal Masonic Hospital (Ravenscourt Park) and St George's Hospital relating to study programmes for Royal Masonic students on secondment to St George's for paediatric training. The letters are accompanied with copies of proposed study day programmes and timetables.

St George's School of Nursing stock book

Notebook labelled 'Stock Book' containing inventories of classroom and office equipment at No 7, Knightsbridge (the address of St George's Hospital School of Nursing), divided up by location or type (e.g. instruments, glassware, linen). The written date range of the book is 1948-1965, but it also contains a taped-in receipt from 1932 and numerous loose inserted documents including lists of missing equipment and a typed list of 'Equipment taken from 7 Knightsbridge to the Grove Hospital in Apr 1960'.

St George's School of Nursing lecture fee book

Notebook with the full title of 'Fee Book for Nurses' Lectures and Examinations from 1 Jan 1952 to Dec 1958' containing lists of payments to lecturers and examiners at St George's School of Nursing. Most pages are signed by matron Muriel Powell or deputy matron Eileen Rees, and stamped by the accounts department; some pages also have Ministry of Health audit stamps.

Kingston Nurse's Report Book

Oversize volume labelled 'Kingston Hospital Nurse's [sic] Report Book' containing alternating pages headed 'Day nurse's report' and 'Night nurse's report', used to record observations on the condition of patients admitted to the hospital, listed by name.

Address book

Alphabetical address book containing postal addresses (and sometimes telephone numbers) of people and institutions. Although it has no label or date, it can be assumed to be from one of the St George's sites (possibly the Grove?) as it includes the names of St George's staff (and has entries such as 'Hospital Car Service (Tooting area)'); the approximate date range can be inferred from the inclusion of Viscount Ingleby (who did not receive that title until 1956) and 'Tite Street [i.e. Victoria] Hospital for Children' (which closed in 1964).

An additional page of typed addresses has been inserted into the volume.

Manor Hospital ward controlled drugs record book

Book labelled 'Ward controlled drugs record book' from the Nurse Education Centre at the Manor Hospital, Epsom, containing printed forms for recording amounts of drugs obtained and administered. Apart from some brief entries on the index page, the book is entirely blank; it appears to have been printed in 1979.

Psychiatric nurse application register

Register labelled 'Psychiatric nurse training' containing lists of names and addresses of applicants to training courses, with dates and remarks, and an alphabetical index at the front. The hospital/training school it relates to is not explicitly mentioned, but it is presumably Kingston, as there is a column headed 'Sent to L.G. on', which stands for Long Grove, the mental hospital affiliated to Kingston.

New entrants documents register

Alphabetical register labelled 'New-Entrants Documents' containing lists of names and signatures with columns headed 'Education Certificate' and 'Birth Certificate' stating whether these documents were checked. It is not clear which institution or course these were 'new entrants' to, but the book is in the same format used by Kingston: a label on the front stating 'Psychiatric Courses from Sept 1969' has been crossed out.

Kingston purchase register

Register of purchases apparently made on behalf of Kingston School of Nursing, including textbooks, equipment, stationery, and journals. A typed breakdown of the 1983-84 budget (referring to correspondence with the South West Thames Regional Nurse Training Committee) has been stapled in.

Architectural plans

Three folded architectural plans produced by the firm of W. H. Watkins, Gray & Partners (aka Watkins Gray), depicting the following:

i) Tooting Grove Experimental Ward: 30 Bed Ward Unit, 5 Nov 1963
ii) Tooting Grove 30 Bed Experimental Ward Unit: Joinery Details - Cleaner's room, hinged shelves & seats, 9 Jul 1964
iii) Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Wimbledon: Rehabilitation Centre – Floor plan at level 91.00, Jul 1964

Out-line Schedules of Accommodation

Document (fastened with treasury tags) with the full title 'Out-line [sic] Schedules of Accommodation for New Teaching Hospital and Associated Medical, Dental and Pre-clinical Schools' containing detailed 'schedules of requirements' for the various wards and departments planned for the new St George's hospital site, with estimated areas in square feet.

Phasing and Allocation of Expenditure

Document produced by the architectural firm Watkins Gray with the full title 'New Teaching Hospital and Associated Medical, Dental and Pre-clinical Schools at Tooting, SW17 for the Board of Governors, St George's Hospital, SW1: Phasing and Allocation of Expenditure' (Jun 1966) containing projected costs (broken down into three phases) of building the new hospital.

Building description cards

Set of 16 cards (fastened with a treasury tag) containing typed notes on the furnishings/materials and layout of different rooms/areas in St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner. The first card has 'Slides' typed at the top, indicating that these cards may have corresponded to a set of slide images; the inclusion of value judgements in the notes (e.g. 'Good illumination – not troubling patient' and 'Carpet, Plain colour – never again?' suggests that they were made with a view to evaluating aspects of the old hospital in preparation for designing the new one at Tooting.

Salmon Committee

Documents relating to the Salmon Committee, which was set up in 1963 (under the chairmanship of Brian Salmon, and also including St George's matron Muriel Powell) to advise on senior nursing staff structure, and resulted in the Salmon Report in 1966. St George's was one of the hospitals selected to participate in a pilot scheme to implement the recommendations of the report.

Much of the material in this sub-series appears to have belonged to Joyce G. Whitehead, a hospital nursing officer at the Ministry of Health.

Printed reports

Printed reports/information booklets produced by the Ministry/Department of Health, including:

  • Report on the Committee on Senior Nursing Staff Structure, 1966 [aka the Salmon Report – Joyce Whitehead's personal copy, covered in sellotape, annotated, and with various supplementary documents inserted]
  • Outline and Recommendations of the Report of the Committee on Senior Nursing Staff Structure, 1966
  • The Senior Nursing Organisation in Hospitals: An Introduction to the Report of the Salmon Committee, 1969
  • Progress on Salmon: A Report by the Department of Health and Social Security and Welsh Office, c.1972

Salmon pilot scheme

Folder labelled 'Salmon Pilot Scheme – St George's Hospital' containing documents relating to the Salmon pilot scheme at St George's, including:

  • draft job descriptions
  • organisation charts and diagrams (including one with copy of cover letter from Muriel Powell, 27 Mar 1969), with accompanying notes
  • checklist and notes relating to pilot scheme visits
  • series of typed papers labelled 'S.P.P.' [Salmon pilot project/proposals/papers?]
  • notes and reports from the Hospital Administrative Staff College
  • NHS Reorganisation Management Study glossary of terms
  • typescript of 'Miss Powell's paper to Dame Kathleen [Raven]', 1970
  • correspondence relating to the scheme, including letter from Muriel Powell to Joyce Whitehead (24 Aug 1967)
  • timetable and notes on Ministry/Department of Health visits to St George's (in both 1967 and 1971)

'Job Descriptions' folder

Folder labelled 'Job Descriptions' containing documents relating to the Salmon pilot scheme (some of which duplicate material in NU/2/4/3), including:

  • draft job descriptions
  • nursing organisation charts/diagrams
  • 'Proposals for Salmon pilot scheme at St George's Hospital, London'
  • handwritten 'Salmon implementation checklist'
  • 'training note' on 'The nursing role in the DHSS, and in government'
  • draft paper on 'The Salmon Report and Job Descriptions'
  • paper on 'Nurses' pre-qualification training in management subjects/skills'
  • papers on nursing organisation/structure
  • handwritten notes on meeting at Department of Health
  • typed quotation from Machiavelli's 'The Prince'

Nursing establishment forecasts

Annotated copies of tables forecasting the nursing establishment at St George's (i.e. number of nurses by grade) for 1967-1969, with accompanying tables of nursing personnel allocated to units and sections

Block and holiday programmes

Folder containing annotated 'Block and holiday programme' tables for 1966-1969, a 'Review of Nursing Staff Establishments', and handwritten tables listing the nursing establishment of hospitals in the Bromley Hospital Management Committee. Several of these documents are labelled 'Miss [Joan] Nash': Nash was a former nurse tutor at St George's who went on to work for the Southeast Thames Regional Hospital Board and was seconded to the Department of Health during the implementation of the Salmon Report.

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